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Why milk sours is chemical change ?

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It is a chemical change as the lactose in the milk of is converted to lactic acid by microbes giving a sour taste
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So chemical changes require a change on a molecular level that cannot be reversed because they form some new substance. Souring milk is not something you can reverse, and the process of it souring produces new molecules.

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